School Travel Organiser Magazine

Jun 27, 2024 | schooltravelorganiser.com | Anne Hunt

Anne Hunt on how learning beyond the classroom creates crucial links with arts, nature, science, and heritage. Source: Weald & Downland Living Museum My career has revolved around ensuring more children and young people can benefit from learning beyond as well as inside the classroom. This is probably because evidence and experience continue to show me the transformational impact these experiences can have.

Nov 17, 2023 | schooltravelorganiser.com | Keeley Rodgers

Simplifying the paperwork for school trips to Europe was also on the list of recommendations put forward at an All Party Parliamentary Group meeting on modern foreign languages. Organisations and teachers came together to discuss ways to make school visits to Europe easier post-Brexit and post-Covid.

Sep 6, 2023 | schooltravelorganiser.com | Keeley Rodgers

We had a look around Bletchley Park’s new Learning Centre which is now open to school groups with bright classrooms, a dedicated lunch room and more. It’s quite that the state-of-the-art Block E Learning Centre was once Bletchley Park’s World War Two communications centre. Built in 1943, it was the only block dedicated entirely to communications. Mostly women worked in the block, handling incoming and outgoing messages and using machines such as Typex to help with encryption.

Sep 4, 2023 | schooltravelorganiser.com | Keeley Rodgers

We went along to the Science Museum in London to see how they’re inspiring the next generation of engineers and technicians with new galleries. When I was at school, it would be fair to say careers options were fairly limited, but not anymore. The Science Museum is taking career inspiration to a whole new level - quite literally - as it has transformed the whole of the first floor into two new fantastic galleries. “Engineers are these really quite remarkable people.

Sep 3, 2023 | schooltravelorganiser.com | Keeley Rodgers

To say there has been a lot going on at the National Portrait Gallery in London is an understatement. We went along to find out more. The new school year heralds the start of the National Portrait Gallery’s transformed learning offer for pupils. It reopened its doors to the public in June following the most extensive transformation of its building since 1896. So what exactly has changed?